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Yankees Covid Outbreak can be bad news for quitting masks Eight people worked for the New York Yankees baseball team, including one player has been positive For Covid-19 and all of them were vaccinated against the virus a little over a month ago. That sounds bad. But don’t panic. (Or, if you’re a fan of the Red Sox, stop smiling.) These “progress” cases don’t mean that vaccines don’t work or that some nasty new vaccine variants have made a very wide line between the Yankees. They do mean, however, that it may be quite early to remove these masks. ....
In fact, B.1.1.7 seems to have the edge over nearly every variant identified so far. At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said B.1.1.7 made up 72 percent of cases in the country. “We’re really seeing B.1.1.7 pushing out other variants decisively,” said Emma Hodcroft, an epidemiologist at the University of Bern. The variants identified in California and New York turned out to be only moderately more contagious than older versions of the virus, and much of their initial success may have been luck. The overall boom in cases last fall amplified what might otherwise have gone undetected. ....
How the United States Beat the Variants, for Now nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
James Gorman and Carl Zimmer, The New York Times Published: 14 May 2021 01:51 AM BdST Updated: 14 May 2021 01:51 AM BdST A photo provided by EcoHealth Alliance shows researchers collecting samples from bats for analysis in Guangdong province, China, in April 2019. A group of 18 scientists stated Thursday, May 13, 2021, in a letter published in the journal Science that there is not enough evidence to decide whether a natural origin or an accidental laboratory leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic. (EcoHealth Alliance via The New York Times) A group of 18 scientists stated Thursday in a letter published in the journal Science that there is not enough evidence to decide whether a natural origin or an accidental laboratory leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic. ....
Why we shouldn t panic about the millions who missed their second vaccine dose yet Five million people in the U.S. missed their second jab, and some scientists see a glimmer of hope in that statistic. We dig into the nuances behind the number. ByMaya Wei-Haas Email This past weekend, I became a statistic. Sitting among a sea of tables at an office building-turned-vaccination center, I received my second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. In just two weeks, I ll become one of more than 100 million people in the United States considered fully vaccinated. Yet not everyone who receives one of the available two-dose vaccines returns for their second shot: So far, some five million people in the U.S., roughly 8 percent of those who received a first dose, have missed their follow-up round. ....